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by p49k 8y ago
The only example you cite is completely off-base. The media first reported on “no-go” zones in Paris, then in Sweden, and later in other European countries. These were reported as places where Muslim immigrants or refugees took over, declar
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rest of the US Most of the world doesn’t have the bizarre forced scripted friendliness in customer service that the US has. People are allowed to be polite or friendly in their own personal way.
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Everyone in the US who makes more than 10k (which I assume would be the minimum bracket for a fine) has to file income tax, and it would take a single bill to make this info available for the purposes of assessing fines; it doesn’t have to
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by p49k 8y ago
Which would indicate that it would be more efficient on a per-person basis in the US than Scandinavia due to economies of scale.
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You forgot the part where that “political content” was disguised as domestic opinion. Reducing the amount of astroturfing on the internet is a good thing.
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Except for the part where he said he moved the code to another site five years ago where it has been running since and even ranks highly for some search queries? Unless I’m misreading that paragraph.
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Isn’t it a problem that Chrome extensions have been purchased by others who then update the code to add spyware to them? I’ve never been notified about updates to Chrome extensions; they’re quietly updated in the background. Several example
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Hackable voting machines completely invalidate the safety provided by independent monitors, which is why people are concerned. It shifts the dynamic you’re speaking of.
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I'd recommend reading "The Big Test: The Secret History of the American Meritocracy" - it covers the long history of this pervasive issue in the American education system in great detail.
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> how would it apply to written school admission exams? There are numerous examples of how written exams are often biased against minorities due to either using cultural references/vocabulary or to frame problems using metaphors tha
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by p49k 8y ago
Thanks - this is all good info that I'm going to take some time to absorb.
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by p49k 8y ago
How did you learn how to journal? There are countless quality resources for developing a solid workout routine, but I have no idea how to start a journal and every time I try, I have no idea what to write and there is no structure, which ma
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by p49k 8y ago
False dichotomy. You can most certainly choose to live life by your own values and make friends. A lot of people respect that trait in a person enough to put aside gossip.
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Do you think that’s how the world should work? If not, why are you so willing to acquiesce to that model? These kinds of things are such non-issues in other cultures, and if we actually stand up for our values and live our lives by them, ma
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by p49k 8y ago
Search results don’t vary that much based on these things, with the exception of how your location affects location-relevant results (like searching for tax info in the UK will less likely show pages from the IRS). Let’s not exaggerate he
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by p49k 8y ago
Bad ads appear with every ad network, and ad networks are lazy to stop it because they know that sites will take all the blame (your comment is a great example). Pop into /r/adops sometime (or the associated slack channel) and wat
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by p49k 8y ago
I don’t necessarily agree that it’s what most people want. I think the reason that most people keep buying macs is because of MacOS. It is so nice to have a UNIX-based OS with great UI, so we keep buying the overpriced, out-of-date, defecti
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by p49k 8y ago
It's not about feelings; it's about intent. The intent is not at all the same, and you know it. There's a huge difference between discrimination designed to suppress a group of people, and discrimination designed to give disa
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by p49k 8y ago
> The decision is based on the sex and race of the founder. What you just described is the definition of discrimination, not racism or sexism. These words have meanings and you can look them up. Saying it's racist and sexist is just
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by p49k 8y ago
I disagree. To say something is sexist or racist would imply that the intent is to favor these groups due to a belief that they are superior, or due to a hatred toward the other groups rather than as a strategy to counter the effects of his
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by p49k 8y ago
Only in a historical and societal vacuum is it racist and sexist.
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Is it racist and sexist to use private funds in order to counterbalance what is clearly a long history of racism and sexism in preferring white males in VC capital? You might have a point if the gender/racial makeup of founders were a
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by p49k 8y ago
You still have to enter your password to confirm deletion of your account, so there would be no security risk in displaying that info page.
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by p49k 8y ago
You’re right: such city designs should be accompanied by good universal healthcare and accessible public transportation, like most other wealthy countries, so that neither of these would be an issue.
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Where in the US do we have a problem with random people hanging out in schools undetected? Pretty sure that human face detection would spot that pretty quickly.
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Yes, but that’s not I was talking about in my original post, at least. I was discussing the fact that even if you explicitly choose “Amazon.com” from that list of vendors, Amazon itself is shipping goods from other vendors and making it imp
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Even items “shipped and sold by amazon” can often be counterfeit. Below is one example, but I’ve also read on HN of someone receiving a dangerous fake Apple adapter that was “sold and shipped by Amazon”, and I have personally bought shampoo
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You should still only do this when the user is aware you’re tracking these behaviors and you have their consent. That’s the problem here.
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They could go the Uber route and completely ignore all laws and regulations and get away with it somehow.
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You can’t really evaluate if it was bad or not unless you know what percentage of the total workforce was over 40 before the layoffs. The lower that number is (below 40%), the more disproportionate the action was.

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